The Bastard Sons of Enoch - Shriekback

Cain decked the angel said «fuck you screw»

Shook the garden’s dust from off his shoe

Then he walked in the desert a mile or two

He came to the plain where the medlars grew

And he sat down on the burning sand

Looked at the red on his brown right hand

And he spoke to the devil about his plans

Out to the east of Eden

Oh, the devil said «Cain, I think this will fly

I want this bastard deep and high

From the guts of the earth to the clean blue sky

Time to rape, scald, scar up and petrify»

So with shovel and pick they worked side by side

Till they ripped out a hole in the grandmother’s side

And the city rose out of it bad and wide

Out to the east of Eden

Enoch begat uruk begat nineveh begat babylon begat sodom

Begat jericho begat cairo begat port said begat

Begat bangkok begat saigon begat vegas begat hamburg

Begat new york city begat mega city one begat neo tokyo

That was all now so long ago

And down these mean streets now we all must go

All our fears have come true and no help to know

That only our thoughts have made them so

All the people are scared as they can be

Crying «don't try and come to close to me»

Now we all prefer and don’t you agree

A mechanical kind of ecstacy

And the masters preen and their wives impress

And the witches burn and the slaves undress

And they all get fucked and paid and blessed

On the altars of their own success

And the numb and stupid and dumb and vain

Have their fatuous theories to explain

Why nobody any longer feels the pain

Down to the east of Eden

Wanna see the infernal city

Wanna see the ruined city

Wanna see the poisoned city

Wanna see the big bad city

Wanna see the lost city

Wanna see the dead city

Wanna see the ghost city

Wanna see the forbidden city

Wanna see the infernal city

Wanna see the ruined city

Wanna see the poisoned city

Wanna see the big bad city

Wanna see the lost city

Wanna see the dead city

Wanna see the ghost city

Wanna see the forbidden city